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has a single jaw with one row of teeth. Its eight teeth are disproportionately large, with a length of up to 0.13 mm, which inspired discoverers of the species to use a name reminiscent of
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does not drop off its host after feeding but can remain attached at the site of its bite for days and weeks. After a time it can reach a length of up to 7 cm.
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favours the mucosae of mouth, nose and throat in humans. Other leeches that also settle in mucosae have been found in noses but as well near the eyes and in the
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of leech takes sustenance from the mucous membranes of the mammalian upper respiratory tract, and is known to feed upon humans. It has eight teeth.
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and genetic comparisons of its genome to other leeches that infest the mucosae of mammals has brought new insight to their taxonomy.
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it can cause strong headaches. Because of its small size the leech is most often not discovered immediately.
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was discovered feeding upon the mucous membrane of a girl who had recently bathed in the upper Amazon in
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features a likewise reduced number of teeth, namely six per jaw, but in turn it has three jaws.
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826:Categories
486:References
479:Oxyptychus
451:Semiscolex
418:Dinobdella
414:Myxobdella
406:Praobdella
149:Subclass:
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199:Species:
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87:Eukaryota
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510:PLoS ONE
464:(genera
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286:Taiwan
233:, 2010
231:et al.
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191:et al.
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659:IRMNG
368:When
263:genus
251:leech
245:is a
127:Clade
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